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Meta Quest 3S review: Fantastic VR performance at a budget price

The Meta Quest 3S costs as little as $299.99, and with performance to match its big sibling, the Quest 3, it's an absolute winner.

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Scientists find giant, hidden gas cloud only 300 light-years away: 'This cloud is literally glowing in the dark'

A newly found, huge cloud near our solar system probably won't form stars, but will rather disperse as part of a feedback cycle that regulates star formation.

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NYT bestseller Daniel Wilson's next book is 'Hole in the Sky', an alien first contact story on a Cherokee reservation, and it's already been picked up by Netflix (interview)

'This really digs into two of my favorite things: where I'm from in Oklahoma, and robots and science fiction'

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A failed Soviet Venus lander will fall back to Earth after being stranded for 53 years

A Venus lander launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 has been predicted to fall back to Earth some time in May.

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What happens inside neutron stars, the universe's densest known objects?

Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts.

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Astronomers gaze into 'dark nebula' 60 times the size of the solar system (video)

Using the Dark Energy Camera astronomers have found a packed stellar nursery of infant stars in the dark nebula in the 180-light-year-wide Circinus West molecular cloud.

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Lego Marvel Rocket & Baby Groot Minifigure set is now 20% cheaper in this Amazon Sci-Fi deal

This fantastic Lego set makes a great display piece but with movable limbs, it's fun for fueling youngsters' Marvel Universe imagination and it's rarely discounted, so grab it while you can.

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March 2025 featured fires, floods and record-setting warmth in the US

March was a busy month for climate disasters in the U.S., as the nation endured tornado outbreaks, raging wildfires, and record-setting heat.

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Satellite images reveal how Earth's surface moved during deadly Myanmar earthquake

Europe's Sentinel-1 satellites captured radar images of Myanmar before and after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck on March 28, revealing significant ground movement.

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Newly launched NASA satellites open eyes to start studying 'auroral electrojets' in Earth's atmosphere

The first bits of data have come back from NASA's EZIE cubesat mission, which aims to solve some mysteries surrounding the "auroral electrojet" phenomena in Earth's atmosphere.

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Scientists use the JWST to study an extremely ancient galaxy piercing through the Cosmic Dark Ages

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found an extremely ancient galaxy piercing through a thick blanket of cosmic fog in the distant universe.

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SpaceX launches 250th Starlink satellite mission, lands rocket at sea (photos)

SpaceX launched its 250th dedicated Starlink mission on Sunday night (April 27), sending 23 of the broadband satellites to low Earth orbit.

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Uranus passed between Earth and a distant star this month — and NASA caught the rare event

NASA researchers got a rare chance to study Uranus' atmosphere and rings this month, when the ice giant passed between Earth and a distant star, creating a "stellar occultation."

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20 years ago, 'Star Wars: Republic Commando' made us care about the clones long before 'The Clone Wars' and 'The Bad Batch'

The 2005 cult classic was pivotal to giving the Grand Army of the Republic faces and voices before George Lucas and Dave Filoni went deeper.

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Trump administration cancels lease for NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies lab in New York City

The Trump administration has canceled the New York City lease of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, a leading NASA climate-studying organization.

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Faint Neptune joins Venus and Saturn to form a planetary triangle in the pre-dawn sky on April 28

Venus, Saturn and dim Neptune will form a planetary triangle in the pre-dawn sky on April 28, with Mercury hovering on the periphery.

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Meet the 'Doctor Who' actors who brought the retrofuturistic robots to life for season 2's 'The Robot Revolution' (interview)

Veteran creature artists Stephen Love and Rob Strange share the rigors of having zero vision and taking tumbles while playing retro robots.

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NASA's Dragonfly nuclear-powered helicopter clears key hurdle ahead of 2028 launch toward huge Saturn moon Titan

NASA's pioneering Dragonfly mission has passed its critical design review, keeping it on track for a 2028 launch to the potentially life-hosting Saturn moon Titan.

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The new 'Doctor Who' episode 'The Well' is actually a sequel to a David Tennant classic

The Doctor may not realise it at first, but he's been to Planet 6767 before…

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 158 — Hubble's 35th Birthday

On Episode 158 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by John Grunsfeld to talk about the Hubble Space Telescope on its 35th anniversary.

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International Dark Sky Week 2025: See these 10 night sky sights to celebrate

Celebrate International Dark Sky Week by tracking down 10 astronomy targets.

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